Illness	Number of cases
Coxarthrosis arthrosis of hip (M16.1)	505
Gonarthrosis arthrosis of knee (M17.1)	484
Gonarthrosis arthrosis of knee - Other unilateral secondary osteoarthritis of knee (M17.5)	116
Coxarthrosis arthrosis of hip (M16.3)	45
Coxarthrosis arthrosis of hip - Other unilateral secondary osteoarthritis of hip (M16.7)	30
Complications of internal orthopaedic prosthetic devices implants and grafts (T84.04)	29
Osteonecrosis (M87.85)	24
Gonarthrosis arthrosis of knee (M17.3)	22
Acquired deformities of fingers and toes (M20.1)	17
Complications of internal orthopaedic prosthetic devices implants and grafts (T84.05)	12

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Operation using a surgical robot (5-987.1)	556
Operation on the kneecap (patella) or its ligaments (5-804.5)	527
Open surgical procedure on a joint (5-800.4h)	483
Surgical implantation of artificial knee joint (5-822.j1)	451
Surgical implantation of an artificial hip joint (5-820.00)	307
Treatment of pain by the introduction of a liquid anaesthetic around other nerves outside the brain and spinal cord (8-915)	269
Surgical transplantation or transposition of bone tissue (5-784.0d)	249
Surgical implantation of an artificial hip joint (5-820.94)	165
Surgical implantation of an artificial hip joint (5-820.02)	138
Surgical implantation of artificial knee joint (5-822.g1)	118

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

Yes

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Yes

Department key

Department key: 2300

Type of specialist department

Main Department

Hospital information and services for all specialist departments

Services

Quality

External comparative quality assurance

Further information

External quality assurance according to state law
No participation

External quality assurance according to the DMP

Diabetes mellitus Typ 2

Implementation of resolutions of the Federal Joint Committee on quality assurance (G-BA)
No participation

Further training
pursuant to Article 136b, para. 1, sentence 1, no. 1 of the SGB

Number	Group
57	Medical specialists (m/f) , psychological psychotherapists (m/f) and child and adolescent psychotherapists (m/f) who are subject to the obligation to undergo further training*
43	Number of medical specialists (m/f) from no. 1 who have completed a five-year period of further training and are therefore subject to the obligation to provide evidence
42	Number of those persons from no. 2 who have provided proof of further training according to Article 3 of the G-BA regulations

* according to the “Provisions of the Joint Federal Committee for the Further Training of Medical Specialists (m/f), Psychological Psychotherapists (m/f) and Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists (m/f) in Hospitals”

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Accessibility information

General information

Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	Famulaturen und das Praktische Jahr können bei uns absolviert werden.
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies	Teilnahme an Studien im Rahmen des DarmkrebZentrums
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks
Doctoral supervision

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	In Zusammenarbeit mit der Kaiserswerther Diakonie erfolgt bei uns der praktische Teil der Ausbildung zum Operationstechnischen Assistenten (OTA).
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB16	Dietician (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals	Die Einrichtungen des VKKD gehören zu den katholischen Krankenhausträgern aus Düsseldorf, Neuss und Ratingen, die in 2005 eine gemeinsame Krankenpflegeschule gegründet haben. Die St. Elisabeth-Akademie hat zum 01.06.2005 als eigenständige gGmbH ihren Betrieb aufgenommen.